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Citation
(2001), "Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers.", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 2 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2001.24902aab.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers.
Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and Engineers.
By Jurin, R.R., Danter, K.J. and Roush, D.E. Jr (2000). Pearson Custom Publishing, Boston, MA.
Keywords: Environment, Communications, Natural resources
The book has been prepared under the assumption that every human on Earth crafts, exchanges, and receives messages about our home and that we are all environmental communicators.
Each of us, the book states, already partakes in the process that is the subject of this book – environmental communication. If we already are doing it, we can only hope to learn to do it better. More clearly. More effectively. In more meaningful ways.
As communicating is a skills-based process, the book argues that we can learn to improve our abilities to send and decode information. Environmental communication, it sees, is based on an urgency to better understand and translate the human relationship with the rest of nature. As every person attempts to create meaning from the sensations produced by the world around them, our population grows with rapidity usually found only in the microbial realm. "Human beings have a natural affinity to purposely work through their relationships with the rest of the natural world" (Cantrill, 1999). As we move toward the clarity we all seek, we like to discuss it with others. Our discourse about the world around us is environmental communication.
For further information and orders, please contact: Donny Roush, Outreach Programming Manager, Natural Heritage Project, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Campus Box 8044, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA. E-mail: rousdona@isu.edu